The programme, which aired at 9pm on Thursday, mainly focused on two other families living in Yorkshire and Salisbury, but people still had their opinions on Vickie’s way of parenting.

Vickie Hairsine and her family have appeared Channel 4 documentary Feral Families

Before the show began, people were anticipating whether they would be able to handle watching the programme, tweeting: “5 minutes in and I’m ready to have a coronary”, as well as “I give myself 8 minutes before I want to rip the tv off the wall”.

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The other families saw babies running around the knives, seven-year-olds with nose piercings shaving their own heads and one child playing with a pick-axe in the garden, which definitely made the Hairsine family look relatively normal.

Vickie decided to approach the no rule lifestyle a year ago, and said she “doesn’t care” if her eldest daughter never learns to read or write.

Needless to say, that got a few remarks on the Feral Families hashtag Twitter feed.

There were endless comments such as: “I’m sure that poor little girl won’t be happy when she has no opportunities as an adult because she can’t read or write”, and even claiming Vickie kept her children at home because they felt she was too lonely without them there.

The main cause for concern however, appeared to be when she dyed seven-year-old daughter Jessica’s hair purple.

While applying the dye, Vickie said: “I don’t want them to be unhappy in school and learn to sit in a classroom so they can go on to have an office job.

“I want them to be able to start their own business. People don’t leave Hull. I want them to see further than the Humber Bridge and travel down the M62.

“Now we have more days out and we’re more happy. It’s one less thing to worry about.”

This inevitably had the Twitter community asking how Jessica would manage setting up her own business without any literacy skills, and “how are they going to work out their own tax and NI, not to mention managing bills”.

With other families on the show raising 13-year-olds who can’t read or write, and actively encouraging their children not to go to school, the majority of social media was aimed away from Vickie and her brood.

But the purple hair was still a controversy to the very end, with one tweeter stating: “More opportunities in life .... purple hair ... what about social skills, life long learning skills”, and another said: “Denying your children a formal education is one thing but dying your child’s ears purple is another level.”

Vickie Hairsine and her family will appear on a Channel 4 documentary Feral Families (Image: Katie Pugh)

One of the few positives from the show was people coming forward on their views of home education “done correctly”, and agreeing to many of the concerns about what the general public see as conformity.